There has been some impressive music this year, including some highly expected albums from I really enjoy.
Top Album
Disillusion is (by far) my favorite band, and the chances of this not being my top album for the year were pretty low. The first few songs on the album are amazing and hook into your brain for weeks. The rest of the album is not as infectious but once you give it some time, they really shine for the excellent songs that they are.
Honorary Mention
I also want to call out the song Anoana by Heilung, off their album Drif. I thought the first couple of songs off this album were great but the rest of the album did not click for me. However, I keep coming back to this song and its haunting beauty.
Death
Some great death came out this year, especially in the area of Technical Death Metal. These are unranked and listed in alphabetical order.
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- Allegaeon – DAMNUM
- Dystopian A.D. – Doomsday Psalm
- Exocrine – The Hybrid Suns
- Fallujah – Empyrean
- Inexorum – Exquinox Vigil
- Moonshade – As We Set the Skies Ablaze
- Psycroptic – Divine Council
- Soilwork – Övergivenheten
- Soreption – Jord
No Death
In the realm of “everything else” there were great albums to be had.
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- Amorphis – Halo
- Blind Guardian – The God Machine
- Clutch – Sunrise at Slaughter Beach
- Ghost – IMPERA
- Mendel – Equilibrium
- Mountainscape – Atoms Unfurling
- Russian Circles – Gnosis
- Joe Satriani – The Elephants of Mars
- Toundra – Hex
EPs
As always, there are a couple of EPs I want to call out.
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A Gift to Art
Lybica debuted this year with a pretty solid album of post-metal, and though they did not quite make it on the “No Death” list I wanted to call out the glory of their cover art.
I do not think this glory needs further comment.
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